Amazon EBS now supports up to four volume modifications in 24 hours
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now supports up to four Elastic Volume modifications per volume within a rolling 24-hour window. Elastic Volume modifications allow you to increase the size, change the type, and adjust the performance of your EBS volumes. With this update, you can start a new modification immediately after the previous one completes, as long as you have initiated fewer than four modifications in the past 24 hours.
This enhancement improves your operational flexibility by enabling you to immediately scale storage capacity or adjust performance in response to sudden data growth or unanticipated workload spikes. With Elastic Volume modifications, you can modify your volumes without detaching them or restarting your instances, allowing your application to continue running with minimal performance impact.
This feature is available in all commercial Amazon Web Services Regions, including the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. This capability is automatically enabled without requiring changes to your existing workflows. To learn more, see Modify an Amazon EBS volume using Elastic Volumes operations in the Amazon EBS User Guide.